VOCAL Press Days SS16

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ListaPost Transforms Instagram into a Powerful

LISTAPOST TRANSFORMS INSTAGRAM INTO A POWERFUL TOOL FOR UTILIZING THE WORLD’S IMAGE STOREHOUSE

Finally an App That Draws Real and Unique Value From Photo Sharing

Taking the power of social media to a new level of productivity, ListaPost is a mobile application that allows users to search, save and organize the world of Instagram photo content into customized lists for easy reference. These lists can then be shared with friends, customers and colleagues to communicate an inspiration or tell a more detailed story, revolutionizing the way we can leverage history’s most significant visual documentation of daily life around the world.  

Instagram has become one of the most widely used applications for sharing photos, with more than 90 million active monthly users and 40 million photos posted each day. Given this extent of participation and submission of original content, the level to which it has become a lifestyle accessory that has changed the marketing and media landscape is unprecedented. Yet ironically, as a photo-sharing tool it presents a range of problems to actually share photos beyond itself. With its content largely existing as an isolated silo, its power as an avenue for personal and professional promotion is greatly diluted.

“The only way to use Instagram content is to take a screenshot, yet these become lost in your photo album and laborious to find,” says ListaPost founder Ben Nazarian. “The ListaPost solution is a tool to extract Instagram content for use both within Instagram and beyond.”

The process is simple: search, save and organize Instagram posts into personal lists that are easily referred to for future use. These collections are then sharable within Instagram as ListaGram slideshows, as well as externally via email, textback or through other social media platforms. The result is profound: the world’s real-time image diary can now be arranged into productive and inspirational packages with qualitative purpose, while also allowing users to tell a more comprehensive story from multiple Instagram posts.

For the millions of Instagram users sharing their lives through imagery, ListaPost offers an exciting way to share more than just a moment of interest. For businesses and brands, ListaPost is the most powerful productively tool for the world’s most popular photo-sharing platform that finally allows dynamic and engaging storytelling.

For more information visit Lista-Post.com. For all media inquiries contact VOCAL.  

Stahl SS16 Collection

Stahl Collection Preview

Stahl is the leading company in chemicals for leatherproducts and performance coatings. With its three brands – Stahl, PielColor and Picassian – the company delivers best in class solutions for top brands active in the automotive, fashion and furniture industry among others. Next to the strengthening of its position as market leader in leather products, the company foresees further market growth in performance coatings.

To showcase Stahl’s leathers and trends of SS16, VOCAL hosted an open-house cocktail evening at Penthouse 45 in Midtown Manhattan. VOCAL will continue to showcase the brand through seasonal open-house cocktail events, focused on media, key production partners and varied new business associates. 

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Upscale Gastronomy on the Lower East Side

The Iconic Chloe 81 Expands with Chloe 81 Blue: A Refined Artisanal Cocktail and Oyster Bar.

Opening its doors in 2008, Chloe 81 fast became a favorite for anyone wanting a late-night drink amongst the connected New York scene. This exclusive location has now expanded to the ground floor above its iconic cellar bar with Chloe 81 Blue, offering its fashionable clientele the finest in oysters, a raw bar and crafted cocktails.

The three owners of Chloe 81 Blue – M Kouger, Brooke Smy and Michael Townsend – have been partnering in inspired hospitality ventures for over six years. Each with a specialty skill set and variety of background, together they combine for a diverse management team that brings much to both this fast-growing business and to the evolving neighborhood. In introducing this much-needed destination for fine seafood and artisanal cocktails, the team of Chloe 81 again elevates the nightlife of New York City’s Lower East Side.

“The LES has changed dramatically in the past few years. There is a lot more foot traffic, affluence and excitement surrounding the area and we're thrilled to have been and to continue to be a part of it“, says M Kouger, co-owner of Chloe 81. “Our collective vision as a management team is to create spaces that bring in a wide array of guests looking for quality food, cocktails and quite simply, a really good time”.

Over the last decade, New York’s Lower East Side has become the neighborhood of choice for those wanting to experience an authentic taste of the city. No longer dirty streets and dive bars, the LES is now home to some of New York’s most inspired boutiques, bars and eateries. Bringing further vibrancy to the neighborhood, Chloe 81 Blue takes its inspiration from a Parisian bistro with custom-designed bar and handcrafted furniture built entirely for this special space. Blue banquettes continue yet contrast the red theme from the cellar bar, set against pristine subway tiling, polished steel finishing and Victorian tin ceilings to create an atmosphere that raises its already high reputation of social excellence.

Address:                      Chloe 81 Blue          

81 Ludlow St. (between Delancey and Broome), Lower East Side, New York, NY 10002

Hours:                         5pm–12pm Weekdays, 5pm–2am Weekends

For more information visit www.chloe81.com. For all media inquiries contact VOCAL.  

Introducing: ListaPost

Goodbye screenshots. Hello ListaPost.

Now you can search, save and share Instagram photos with ease. Discover inspiring content, organize into personal lists then share your mini feeds as slideshows ­– socially through Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, online as HTML, or personally via email and text.

Save easily. Share creatively.

ListaPost gives you the power to arrange the world’s real-time image diary into something manageable and personally relevant. Your lists become professional reference files, personal inspirations and engaging social stories.

SEARCH
+ Your Feed – everyone you follow
+ Your Profile – posts & likes
+ User Search – public or following
+ Hashtags – trending or unique tags

SAVE
+ Create Personalized Lists

+ Easily Save & Organize

+ From Your Feed & Profile

+ From User & Hashtag Search

SHARE
+ Individual Posts or Entire Lists

+ Social Media: Facebook, Twitter & Instagram

+ Web: as simple HTML code

+ Email: to friends, family or colleagues

+ Text: sharing can also be private

CobaltStyle.com

As a Global Creative Network, Project COBALT Launches COBALT Style to Inspire and Realize the Potential of Emerging Fashion Designers.

Project COBALT is a uniquely networked platform dedicated to accelerating the potential of young creators to impact the world through the creative disciplines of fashion, art, music, film, technology, and craft. The goal is to maintain an ongoing conversation with future generations who embody creative culture.

As the kick-off for the greater platform, COBALT Style launches as the first of the creative initiatives that fosters the best of young, visionary fashion under the guidance of designers Jeff Staple and Liza Demeyrijan. In celebration, Street Etiquette is hosting an exclusive preview event on November 20 to showcase the overall vision of Project COBALT and the first of the COBALT Style collaborations.

Project COBALT is a network dedicated to accelerating the potential of young creators to creatively impact the world.

WHO:              

Hosted by Street Etiquette. Performance by Lucas Walters. Founders Mentored by Jeff Staple and Liza Demeyrijan in partnership with Anthony Flores and Mathew Klein. Style pParticipants: Street Level Culture, Alexandra Kennedy and Dolores Haze. Performance by Lucas Walters.

WHAT:           

The official launch of COBALT Style will be held at SoHo House in New York City as the exclusive debut for the fashion industry, hosted by Street Etiquette with sounds by DJ Lucas Walters. Featured will be the release of a collaborative line between COBALT Style and The Black Ivy capsule collection by Street Etiquette.

COBALT Style is designed to assist emerging designers in building a successful brand through the guidance of fashion industry leaders. Fashion Accelerator 360 and All Beuys Club agency have come together to build a program that stars fashion veterans as Mentors and aspiring designers as the Craft Class. Designers will partake in personalized business development with respected fashion entrepreneurs Jeff Staple and Liza Demeyrjian, as well as topical discussions and networking activities with fashion veterans such as Stephen Alan, Denise Willamson and Parke Lutter and Ronen Jehezel. The goal of COBALT Style goal is to empower young designers across multiple categories of fashion with the industry insights required to build a successful business.

COBALT Style is one of Project COBALT’s platforms embracing the cross-pollination of fashion, art, music, film, technology, and craft

WHERE:          

SoHo House, 29-35 9th Avenue, New York, NY 10014

WHEN:            

Thursday, November 20, 2014, 7:00 – 10:00 PM

For more information please visit www.cobaltstyle.com. For all media inquiries contact VOCAL.  

The VOCAL Times – Everyone is a DJ

DJ JAPANCAKES

I was told early on that NY is a playground for motivated people to do dope shit. No matter what your lane, NY offers an international platform to make shit happen. This mantra reigns supreme in the ring with any city around the world and has been the gas pedal to expediting the goals of many.

LIKES: Chicken Chick-fil-a Problem Solvers Buns Good Energy // DISLIKES: Slow drivers in the passing lane Lists Writ- ing Bad Energy BORN: Cape May // BRED: New York City

BRIGETTE

Sensual Miami roller-disco from the Paris duo Brigitte, aka the disco-charged Parisien duo Sylvie Hoarau and Aurélie Saada, seek to tap into the era of Studio 54 to find a gaze that was not filtered through male eyes only for J’sais Pas. “We wanted to show a feminine view about sex and women: something hypnotic, sen- sual, but not vulgar. We women like to see a sexy girl too. We filmed a real woman roller-skating without showing her face, focusing on her ass in little shorts, to portray everywoman. Disco is about these women: The Helmut Newton women, the Guy Bourdin women. When you say the name Brigitte in France, you think of glamorous names: Brigitte Bardot, Brigitte Lahaye, a porn star in the 70s, or Brigitte Fontaine. But Brigitte is also the name of the woman next door.” 

LENNON & MAISY

Everyone loves an overnight YouTube sensation from Can- ada, thanks to Bieber. The dynamic music duo, Lennon Ray Louise Stella and Maisy Jude Marion, best known as Lennon & Maisy are two old souls, and sisters. They are now the stars in the ABC musical drama series Nashville. Before securing an acting career, the girls aimed big in creating their own fame. To ensure they would get work- ing visas they uploaded a cover of Robyn’s “Call Your Girlfriend” and went viral overnight. They then performed on Good Morning America in NYC and the rest is history. Their YouTube channel now has over 50 million views and over 500,000 subscribers. 

NPR: TINY DESK

Tiny Desk Concert Contest: Over 7,000 musicians across the USA entered in a contest for a chance to perform at NPR Music’s Tiny Desk and at the Lagunitas CouchTrip- pin’ to Austin show. The winner this year is Fantastic Negrito — a.k.a. Xavier Dphrepaulezz, pronounced dee- FREP-ah-lez — has a remarkable backstory. For his One of 15 children, he grew up in a strict home, and later signed a contract with Interscope Records in the ‘90s. That deal fell apart, though, and soured him on music-making. Then, a near-fatal car crash put him in a coma, and eventually left him without the proper use of his hands; he struggled with physical therapy for years to get some movement from what he now calls “The Claw.” 

The VOCAL Times – Everyone is a Photographer

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